Nobody felt that LeMons HQ was “honoring” the disgraced Illinois governor by naming the 2010 Chicago race the Rod Blagojevich Never-Say-Die 500, but just try depicting the image of Che Guevara as a LeMons racer on your event patch! Next thing we knew, Glenn Beck was issuing anti-LeMons tirades on his show and PBIR was getting spammed by the calls of enraged, humor-challenged patriots.

Fine, said Chief Perp Jay Lamm, we’ll put my face on the damn patch, and we’ll change the name of the race while we’re at it: The Painfully Bland Bowl of Thin Lukewarm Oatmeal That Can’t Possibly Offend Anyone, No Matter How Much They Enjoy Being Offended, 24-Hour Season Ender.

That didn’t sit so well with many of the racers, and so quite a few teams raided their local army-surplus stores and showed up to the track dressed in full Fidel/Che–style fatigues-and-berets garb. In solidarity, the LeMons Supreme Court (seen in the top photo posing with one of the Che’d-up teams) went for the olive-drab-and-cigars look and created a special “Bakcheesh” BRIBED stencil. When 2011 dawned and the champagne started flowing, the PBIR paddock looked like a brain-scrambling mix of Havana 1959 and Mardi Gras.